Zachary Huang

About The Author

Zachary Huang is an AI researcher at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers where he works on large language model agents and systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University and was a Google PhD Fellow. Before Microsoft, he held research positions at Databricks and the Microsoft Gray Systems Lab. Crack Any Codebase with AI grows directly out of his open source work on Codebase Knowledge Builder, an AI agent that turns any GitHub repo into a beginner-friendly tutorial. The project reached 12K+ GitHub stars and the front page of Hacker News.

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Crack Any Codebase with AI

Code is free, understanding is not

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Whether you’re dealing with a legacy codebase or an AI-generated project, working with “code you didn’t write yourself” has become the default for most software developers. Understanding an unfamiliar codebase can be a...

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